New MechWarrior trailer...

[lensman]

And in anticipation of the new version of MechWarrior. Smith & Tinker has granted the online dev team at MekTek.net permission to release MechWarrior 4 entirely for free.

MechWarrior at IGN.com

Comments

[thanos73.livejournal.com]

My inner mechwarrior fan boy just came!

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I was in my bunk when I read the announcement.

Now if only they can make a good simulation MMO of MW.

[lensman.livejournal.com]

Heh I can "almost" picture you squee-ing... ;-)

There a more in depth interview and analysis over at IGN.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I read the interview.

I WANT a MMO for team battles.

[lensman.livejournal.com]

Yeah I was thinking about this on my drive home and I think it could be built/scripted as a set of vehicles in SecondLife, or one of it's open-source alternatives, such that when the Avi "sits" in the cockpit; movement controls transfer to "Mech". Team voice or Text chat can be a private group chat session. This could also mean the Mechs could even possibly end up being user customizable (Easily for paint jobs), but I think it could also work for armor/weapon systems. Further customizations could even be done on Avi helmet/HUD interfaces....

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Well, keeping in canon, it's unlikely that HUD would be all THAT customizable, as ROM burning was practically lostech to average mercs in 3059, let alone 3015.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

you need to start off with a cross between Flight Simulator, UT3, and WoW.